FFSS Internship (Spring) Week 8

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project:

This week officially began our next phase for this semester's assignments: biography editing! As my previous post mentioned, last we have each chosen a biography from a previous semester to edit for publishing by the end of the semester. I will be continuing to edit the biography that I started editing last semester before we were assigned to the packets. In our meeting, we discussed our progress with the biographies that we chose in a previous meeting this semester, and how we were going to approach them this semester.

The biography I had chosen to edit last semester is in better shape than others in terms of bulk editing because I had work on it last semester, but also because a graduate student had previously worked on it as well. This means that I will hopefully be able to get the editing done quickly and efficiently since the Early Life section has been edited before I was assigned it. Last semester, I had addressed the beginning of the Military Service section, which needed a good amount of editing (and fact checking to ensure the student is representing the historic narrative correctly). This semester, I will be picking up where I left off. 

Also in our meeting, we discussed the possibility of having the project manager edit the biography I wrote when I initially worked on the project in Dr. Lyons' HIS4150 course back in Fall 2024. We have been in connection with the soldier's family since my time writing the biography, and we also connected to a historian that wrote a book on the unit that the soldier served in. We want to make sure that the biography is published sooner or later for a few reasons; one being that the family is waiting to see it and we definitely do not want them to keep them waiting much longer, second being that the historian published his book in May of 2025 so it is very relevant, and third being that I am working on the project and also graduating this semester so it would be nice to have a publication under my name! We decided that the project manager would do the regular editing on the biography, and then I would add in developments to the story that we did not have when I originally wrote it (i.e. connection with the family which filled in some narrative elements and provided us with additional images, and the monograph on the unit!). I am so excited to see the biography I wrote edited and eventually published! 

Our next meeting with everyone will be after spring break, so for now I will continue working on the biography I chose for this semester!

See you next week! 


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